Avalue Technology is bringing the new embedded single board computers, ECM-APL, ECM-APL2-A & ECM-APL2-B, which is equipped with the Intel Apollo lake processor to the market. These new SBCs are designed for dealing with the rising demands on low cost, light weight and system performance and expect to offer users a new solution for entry applications.
As a member of the Intel Atom family, Apollo Lake reserves certain characteristics and advantages from its predecessor, Braswell, ex: a small die SoC designed to slot in below the Core architecture chips. This series is aimed at the entry-level application market and enabling Intel-based solutions to better compete with non-traditional devices based around ARM SoCs. Different from the past Atom series processors, Apollo Lake adopts the new Goldmount architecture and 14 nm manufacturing process.
Furthermore, this processor integrates a newer GPU design based on Intel’s Gen9 GPU (same as Skylake series) to offer modern GPU features and better multimedia performance. ECM-APL, ECM-APL2-A & ECM-APL2-B adopt Apollo Lake processor as the system core for entry-level applications, still offer fair system performance.
Generally speaking, the processor performance is raised 30% higher than the Braswell platform. The processor TDP is 6~12W which is very helpful for energy-saving and to prevent possible problems caused by the overheated system.
